Oh My God Shut The Fuck Up About "Antisemitism" (www.caitlinjohnst.one)

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Oh My God Shut The Fuck Up About "Antisemitism"
[on #Macklemore saying "#FreePalestine"]
https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/oh-my-god-shut-the-fuck-up-about

Caitlin Johnstone
Sep 08, 2026

[she does well ripping hasbara, but she dismisses real #antisemitism as a nothingburger. Wrong.]

“I said, Free #Palestine.

“I want those words to be loud and clear, so the people from #Gaza, all the way to the occupied #WestBank, know that we have not forgotten them.

“And this next song was inspired by the bravery of Columbia U. students who led an encampment movement that mobilized the entire world; open up hearts, myself included, so thank you to those students that risked their diplomas, that risked their tuition, that risked their scholarships, that stood up and said, no. CUAD students, SJP, and #JewishVoiceForPeace...

“To all of my #Jewish brothers and sisters: criticism of #Israel, criticism of apartheid, being against #genocide in no way is a criticism of you. [...]

#DefendFreeSpeech #news #politics #Palestine
@palestine

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[-] belastend@lemmy.dbzer0.com -2 points 2 days ago

I am totally with her about the entire Macklemore situation but "they are just white people with slightly above average household income" is just so dense.

Jews are continuously scapegoated by right wingers for all kinds of evil, members of the US government have spread conspiracies about "Jewish space lasers" and the richest man on earth thinks Jews are behind the so-called "great replacement". Almost every conspiracy theory circles back to Jews in the end but sure, antisemitism doesn't exist because Israel is using it as cudgel and therefore it cannot be real. The world cannot be complex, it must be very easy.

[-] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

All of the things you mention have no material effect on them and they face zero systemic persecution. Only systemic privilege.

Antisemitism in present day isn't a real issue to the point Zionists have to fabricate the stats for it by including anti Zionism.

[-] PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 days ago

Do you think anti-semitism is some kind of systemic shadowy cabal?

[-] dreamy@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 days ago

The Nick Fuentes "groypers" are an absolute minority in far-right ideology. It is in no way a mainstream political current, especially when compared to the Jewish supremacism of the average Republican.